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Show U. S. Destroyer Torpedoed on Patrol ! V ,H.- '-fir, View in Brooklyn navy yard when the U. S. destroyer, Kearny, was commissioned, under command of Lieut. Commander A. L. Danis. The destroyer was torpedoed while on patrol duty, about 350 miles southwest of Iceland. The ship continued on its course, under its own power, to an unnamed port, with 11 members of the crew missing and 10 injured, two of them seriously. The navy department stated that the attack on the Kearny was undoubtedly made by -a German submarine. The Kearny was launched in March, 1910, at Kearny, N. J., and had a complement of 13 officers and 177 men. |